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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY COMMEMORATING THE VICTIMS OF ACTS OF VIOLENCE BASED ON RELIGION OR BELIEF

New York, 22 August 2022

On this day, we honour those who have lost their lives or who have otherwise suffered for simply seeking to exercise their fundamental rights to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief.  I reiterate my firm solidarity with these victims.

Despite the concern of the United Nations General Assembly, which instituted this observance in 2019,...